Who is Fyodor Sologub

Fyodor Sologub (Russian: Фёдор Сологу́б, born Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov, Russian: Фёдор Кузьми́ч Тете́рников, also known as Theodor Sologub; 1 March [O.S. 17 February] 1863 – 5 December 1927) was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.

Early life

Sologub was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor, Kuzma Afanasyevich Teternikov, who had been a serf in Poltava guberniya, the illegitimate son of a local landowner. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother. Tatiana Semyonovna Teternikova, was forced t...
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Fyodor Sologub Poems

  • Devil's Swing
    Over the rushing river
    Where shaggy fir-trees stand,
    The devil himself is pushing
    My swing with furry hand. ...
  • We Are All Captured Beasts
    We are all captured beasts,
    And we howl - as we might.
    We can't open the doors,
    For the doors are locked tight. ...
  • What Are Our Villages
    What are our villages, destitute,
    Or the whole of time and of space?
    Father's mansions exist in a multitude, -
    We don't know their name, and their place. ...
  • The Painful Genius, Great Shakespeare
    1913
    (Fragment)

    The painful genius, great Shakespeare, ...
  • His Wines, Feasts And Funs
    His wines, feasts and funs are forgotten,
    His sword and his armour are left,
    He, single, descends into rotten
    A dungeon, without a lamp. ...
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Long 6 Death 5 Life 5 Evil 4 Earth 4 Body 4 Time 4 Soul 4 Secret 3 Away 3


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Sfencyclopedia: ... david pringle (b.1950)
Geo_liminal: was chasing down an obscure dissertation on the works of fyodor sologub, thought about contacting the author to see if he had a digital copy he might part with, searched him out on the internet... ...and it turns out he's serving a 73 year jail term for child molestation
Beefytopdog: i found a rare english translation of bad dreams by my favorite author, fyodor sologub, and for only eleven-dollars. i can not express how much this means to me in a way that will impart the impact this will have on my soul.
Anto962: 5 of 5 stars to il demone meschino by fyodor sologub
Rk70534: "the invoker of the beast" / russian horror: the stories of fyodor sologub(1863-1927)
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We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
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We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
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